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CSO/RP/1822/381

Letter from Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer, Galway, County Galway, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, relaying applications with observations on public works projects in aid of labouring poor in counties Mayo and Galway: proposals include a quay at Newport and work on roads in districts of Castlebar, Erris, Swinford and Dunmore.

10 Aug 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/382

Letter from Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, commenting on application for advance of aid for a mail coach road in region of Carrick-on-Shannon: also conveys his direction concerning road from Castlerea to Ballymoe and notes that the proposed road from Mohill to Cloone, will cost £1,200.

19 Aug 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/383

File of material relating to proposed public works initiative in aid of the labouring poor for establishment of a colliery road running from Geevagh, County Sligo, into County Roscommon. Includes letter from Colonel William Bridges Neynoe, Castleneynoe, Collooney, County Sligo, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, remarking of the chief sponsor of the scheme, Michael Keogh, ‘that his line was laid out more to benefit his own Estate, thro which it entirely ran, than for the advantage of the Town & Union of Sligo’, 1 July 1822; also includes letter from Keogh, Mount Jerome, Harold’s Cross, County Dublin, to Gregory, asking that work on the road be continued and ‘also that the plans and specification originally approved of…be strictly adhered to’, 14 April 1823; also includes letter from Keogh to Gregory, expressing dissatisfaction at opinion of Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer, respecting motive and practical application of scheme, 9 June 1823; also includes letter from John Killaly, civil engineer, Wexford, County Wexford, to Gregory, referring to earlier observation on the standard of work on colliery road, 23 June 1823; also includes abstract of estimate for works on infrastructure in region of Slieve Corka [?Coragh] collieries and Branlieve colliery, County Leitrim, produced by Nimmo.

29 Jun 1822-23 Jun 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1822/384

Letter from Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer, Galway, County Galway, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial from Allan Hanly, Lavagh, near Roosky, parish of Killglass, County Roscommon, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting a grant of £500 for public works endeavors for purposes of relieving local poor; also encloses memorial from Jasper V Fowler, 20 Mecklenburgh [Railway] Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting financial support to enable construction of cottages and a wall as defense against the sea, in vicinity of Erris, County Mayo.

2 Jul 1822-13 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/385

Letter from G McDermott, Caldra Lodge, Caldragh, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing resolutions of parishioners of Kiltoghert requesting advance of funds under public works initiative to meet presentment for establishment of a new mail coach road from Carrick-on-Shannon to Drumsna and from the former to Cashcarrigan; signed by Charles Cox, their chairman.

29 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/386

Letter from Thomas Magrath, Castlerea, County Roscommon, to Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer, Western District, Galway, County Galway, seeking inclusion on public works project of new roadway from Castlerea to County Galway; includes letter from Reverend William Blundall, Glebe, Castlerea, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, appealing for portion of parliamentary grant for alleviation of poor and cites a number of local projects, such as repair of crossroads and establishment of a ‘good footway from the Town of Castlrea to the free school’ affiliated to Erasmus Smyth: also refers to having taken steps to relieve the poor of the district through ‘Distribution of soup & meal’ and asserts the ‘number of individuals on their book now amounting to above five thousand’.

3 Jun 1822-10 Jul 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/387

Letter from Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer, Galway, County Galway, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, reporting on several claims for compensation arising from pursuit of public works schemes in western district: refers to claims for damage to crops, claim for damages in area of the ‘English road’ from Mr Martin, and Mr Fausset, and from Mr Cochrane of Sligo for injury to his harvest; also reflects favourably on proposed public works at the harbour of Sligo.

11 Sep 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/388

File of material chiefly relating to applications for advance of grants under the public works initiative sanctioned by Parliament for alleviation of the labouring poor. Includes letter from John Killaly, civil engineer, Ennis, County Clare, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, enclosing his ‘Observations upon various applications…for aid towards carrying on public works’ with evaluation of proposals from Sir Hugh D Massey for public road, of road from Corrofin to Ennis, of suggested public works from Mr Lanigan, Mr O’Grady, Joseph Huband, and the Grand Canal Company plus appeal for improvements to the navigation of the River Fergus, 26 June 1822; also includes letter from Edward Lawson, secretary, Grand Canal House, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, pleading for erection of ‘a Lateral Canal and Lock’ on the River Shannon to avoid unsafe stretch of water between O’Brien’s Bridge and Parteen, County Clare, 5 June 1822; also includes letter from Joseph Huband, Charlemont Mall, Dublin, to Wellesley, enclosing copy letter to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting formation of new canal parallel to the River Shannon, 6 June 1822.

18 May 1822-26 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/389

Letter from John Killaly, civil engineer, Ennis, County Clare, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, acknowledging directive for attendance at meeting with commissioners of the Consolidated Fund on subject of application from the Grand Canal Company for loan to facilitate extension of line of canal: adds that he has returned from an inspection of counties Tipperary and Galway, and reports that works on the road from Ennis to Kilrush ‘are now in active progress, on which an establishment of from 12 to 1500 men are daily employed’.

15 Sep 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/390

Letter from Richard Griffith, mining engineer, Royal Dublin Society House, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on various public roads projects ‘through the lately disturbed district of the Counties of Limerick, Cork and Kerry’, which he proposes should be started ‘immediately after the Harvest, and continue the works during the winter and following spring’: locations include Newmarket, Abbeyfeale, Castle Island, Skibbereen and Crookhaven.

11 Sep 1822

1822